Word: decayed
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...become blase about moon voyages. The technical argot of the astronauts has turned off some early enthusiasts, while the rigorous attention the moon walkers must pay to their inflexible schedules has made them seem like robots. Beyond that, the U.S. has be- come concerned with other pressing priorities: urban decay and pollution, poverty and racial inequality...
...Thais seem genuinely concerned about their plight. Neon signs still blaze brightly, and the crowds seem as frenetic as during the days of the boom. But the signs of economic decay are all about. Here and there, a bar or restaurant closes and does not reopen. "We must change our attitude of complacency and extravagance," says Renoo Suvarnsit, secretary general of the National Economic Development Board...
...that it would suffice merely because it was an image and commonplace. Eliot's evening is "spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table"-the image is clinical and deflative, but its context is not. Nor is it just an observation of central-city decay when Eliot writes: "The worlds revolve like ancient women/ Gathering fuel in vacant lots...
Company-losing cities have several difficulties in common. All are old as U.S. cities go; all are financially strapped and suffering from a physical decay that urban renewal has attacked but failed to cure. All the loser cities have experienced racial strife along with a rapid increase in their black populations. Businessmen are now simply following the white middle class to suburbia. Understandable as their individual decisions are, they are widening the chasm of race and class in many U.S. metropolitan areas...
...efficacy of political programs. He adopted a set of impassioned attitudes-they could not be called positions-which still enjoy the religious devotion of the American Right: the "better dead than red" approach to foreign policy, an aversion to any form of collectivism, and a concern about moral decay. But American politics is a politics of property, not of principle. Victory goes to the man who can achieve the broadest consensus among contending self-seeking groups. Goldwaterism and Buckley conservatism contain few ideas that can be given institutional form-so the unions, farmers, business executives, blacks, ethnic groups, the aged...